The campus of the Helen Keller Memorial Association For The Blind is abuzz. The carpets on the floor and the shamiana lend it a festive mood. Students dressed in their best walk around and there is a barely contained excitement in the air. The reason for this? An audiobooks and Braille library that has just recently been launched.
Amid the controversy surrounding Dehradun-based National Institute of Visually Handicapped (NIVH), students who are protesting the alleged sexual harassment of a girl student by a music teacher, said on Wednesday that they will continue their protest till the director is terminated and a deadline is set to meet their demands.
The students have been protesting since August 15 against the alleged molestation and have also put forth a list of demands. The accused teacher, Suchit Narang, was booked by Rajpur police on Saturday but has not been arrested.
Cooking may seem rather intimidating for a person who is blind or visually impaired. But with proper training and care, it is not impossible.
Are you a blind or visually impaired person looking to learn basic cooking skills? Well, sign up for Shirin Kheriwala’s weekly classes!
Starting 25 August 2018, Shirin will hold classes every Saturday at the V M School for the Blindat Tardeo, Mumbai.
Anand Mahindra-backed start-up Thinkerbell Labs, which builds literacy devices for the visually impaired, is on a mission to solve the problem of low literacy and employability among visually impaired people. This Bengaluru-based start-up has built the first learning ecosystem for the visually impaired which consists of Annie—a smart device for self-learning Braille, software for monitoring user progress and interactive content.
New Delhi, August 20
Former Indian cricket skipper Bishan Singh Bedi today launched a vision screening campaign for underprivileged children in Delhi.
He distributed free spectacles to 27 children of Government Boys Senior Secondary School, Pandara Park, where 314 students were screened to identify any visual impairment or eye conditions and prevent avoidable blindness as a part of a joint initiative here.
“Vision is as much critical in children's education as it is in the playing fields. It is vital in childhood and in later life,” said Bedi.
Paola Peretti is losing her eyesight and she wouldn’t have it any other way. When she was 14, she became very short-sighted, virtually overnight. Three years later came the diagnosis of Stargardt macular dystrophy, a degenerative disease that destroys central vision, damages colour perception and results in blindness.
Rustam Oraon, a Class 10 visually impaired student, had a narrow escape as a portion of the roof of his hostel room fell just beside him. The incident took place at the Government Senior Secondary School for Boys (Blind) hostel in north Delhi’s Kingsway Camp on August 8 after heavy rain in the national capital. This incident has occurred after a PIL on the condition of the building and the requirement of teaching staff was filed in the Delhi High Court earlier this month.
Just because you can't see doesn't mean you lack vision. The perfect example of that is 27-year-old Ashwini Angadi who has been visually impaired from birth. A popular person, her biggest claim to fame is that she is a global youth ambassador from Karnataka who works for the empowerment of differently-abled children.
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